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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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A great man is one sentence.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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